KANA and XYBR introduce new web site, WearableBooks.com:
Kanakaris Announces Breakthrough Net [.14600]
Book Technology: Downloadable Book, Music, and Motion Picture
Alliances With Veterans Including the Founding Father of Home Video
Business Editors & High Tech Writers
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1999--
GoGoliath.Com and WearableBooks.com Among New Kanakaris Domains
Kanakaris Communications Inc. (OTC BB: KANA) announced several
alliances to build its Internet focused business in 1999, during a
live Web cast from the World Trade Center on Jan. 27.
These include:
-- Jill Thomas, chief executive officer of ION Systems Inc.,
announced the introduction of a new secure online e-book technology
(immediately available at the Kanakaris Web site www.NetBooks.com).
The technology provides "an exclusive for the missing link in Internet
information -- protection of intellectual copyright." Kanakaris,
according to Thomas, has "an exclusive option from ION to license the
technology, will jointly promote the benefits as well as obtain
content from established publishing houses, individual authors and
manual publishers."
-- Steven Newman, vice chairman of Xybernaut Corp., announced that
Kanakaris and Xybernaut will jointly own a site called
WearableBooks.com providing content for wearable computers, and that a
further relationship between the companies will be developed.
-- Russ Regan, a music industry executive who has been involved with
artists ranging from Elton John to Neil Diamond as well as current rap
and new age music, announced he is president of a new wholly-owned
music subsidiary, Entertainment Partners Inc. The Kanakaris division
will develop RapAmerica.com online radio and Cyberpop.com,
downloadable music site. The new division will create proprietary
music content and has also signed a letter of intent to acquire Ground
Level Music, a distributor with $2 million in annual revenues.
-- George Atkinson, the founding father of home video, announced he
is president of a Kanakaris motion picture Web site in development,
GoGoliath.Com, with nine DVD titles immediately available and a goal
of directly delivering motion pictures online. Atkinson conceived and
implemented the idea of renting videocassettes in 1977, established
the first major videostore chain (Video Staztion with over 600
locations) and was awarded "Video Man Of The Year" (1981), "Video
Retailer of the Year" (1982) and inducted in the Video Hall of Fame.
He pointed out a personal working relationship with Chief Executive
Officer Alex Kanakaris going back 20 years, and feels the Internet
opportunity "may be even bigger than home video." Kanakaris delivered
the first full-length motion picture with no download time over the
Internet in 1995, in conjunction with Xing technology.
-- Beryl Wolk, producer of over 1,000 infomercials and a world
leading entrepreneur, announced an alliance with Kanakaris to build
massive Web traffic to Kanakaris Web sites.
-- Ian Fulton, a real estate industry veteran, announced an alliance
with Kanakaris to create online home selling sites.
TECHNOLOGY
The breakthrough proprietary downloadable text technology
announced by Kanakaris and technology creator ION Systems is now being
demonstrated on the Kanakaris Web site www.NetBooks.com. H.L. Perry's
"Legacy of War" and H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" are currently
online.
Among the highlights of the new technology:
-- The publisher determines the security level and price for their
documents.
-- Readers can read online in a never-before-seen format which
allows readers to control the font size -- up to 1 1/2 inches tall.
Text never scrolls. Pages turn. Columns resize dynamically based on
monitor and font size.
-- The publisher can allow purchasers to read their document offline
in a Windows or Mac downloadable format.
-- Documents can be of any length and have unlimited graphic
capabilities.
-- Full body content searching is standard.
-- Internal and external hyperlinking as well as an automatically
built-in table of contents.
-- Documents can be created using three simple codes from any word
processor or existing HTML code can be converted.
An archived version of the Web cast is now online and accessible
from www.kanakaris.com and www.NetBooks.com. A transcript, in both
text and secure technology formats, is scheduled to go online Thursday
from the same access point.
Kanakaris Communications develops both proprietary and designer
Web sites focusing on the direct downloadability of content. It also
creates the proprietary OPCON Module System of high-end computer
command enclosures through its Desience division. The latter system is
employed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
For further information on Kanakaris Communications
(www.kanakaris.com), contact Alex Kanakaris at 714/444-0560; fax:
949/760-3865; e-mail: info@kanakaris.com; 3303 Harbor Blvd. No. F-3,
Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the
"Act"). In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the
words "plan," "confident that," "believe," "expect," "intend to" and
similar conditional expressions are intended to identify
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Act and are
subject to the safe harbor created by the Act. Such statements are
subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results could
differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking
statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited
to, market conditions, competitive factors, the ability to
successfully complete additional financings, and other risks.
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CONTACT: Kanakaris Communications Inc.
Alex Kanakaris, 714/444-0560
Fax: 949/760-3865
E-mail: info@kanakaris.com
Web: www.kanakaris.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA NEW YORK
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET
COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED
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